String Display in Simulink

How to display a string in simulink?

Answer 1

[Purvaja]

Hi @neemo,

To display strings in Simulink, I came across another MATLAB Answer that describes the answer for it.

You can refer it from here: https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/384833-how-to-display-a-string-in-simulink-display-block

I also tried exploring other approaches, and came across following ways:

1. Using “String Constant” block we can enter any strings we want to display and display using “display” block.
2. To convert from uint8 data type to string, we can use “ASCII->string” block. This can be helpful for integer type inputs.
3. Using “Compose String” block we can output string signal based on the format specifier listed in the Format parameter.

I have implemented above steps respectively in Simulink as shown below in the image.

To learn more about strings in Simulink you can refer this page:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/simulink/ug/simulink-strings.html

For more clarification on the functions used, you can refer to the following resources,

1. String constant: https://www.mathworks.com/help/simulink/slref/stringconstant.html
2. ASCII to string: https://www.mathworks.com/help/simulink/slref/asciitostring.html
3. Compose string: https://www.mathworks.com/help/simulink/slref/composestring.html

Or you can access release specific documentation using these commands in your MATLAB command window respectively:

web(fullfile(docroot, 'simulink/ug/simulink-strings.html')) 
web(fullfile(docroot, 'simulink/slref/stringconstant.html')) 
web(fullfile(docroot, 'simulink/slref/asciitostring.html')) 
web(fullfile(docroot, 'simulink/slref/composestring.html')) 

Hope this solves your question!